trícha cét

Used of a military force and of a political or territorialunit. For full treatment see MacNeill,
PRIA xxix C 102 ff.
,
Hogan,
xxxviii C 148 ff.
Thurn.,
Heldensage 77
, suggests
that t. c. in the sagas may not have represented an actual
force of 3,000 men, but the force, a variable number, levied
in the territory called t. c. Cf. ri aen tuaithe, secht cet
laech lais,
Laws v 50.1
. .i. ri ac ata aen tuath .i. .xxx. ced
d'ferund. Secht cet .i. lin na tuaithi uili,
3-4 Comm.
, where
the t. c. is identified with the túath, with a total muster
of 700 men.